Example sentences of "'d only [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His life was a million miles away from ours , his past revered , his future assured , the son of a doctor and the father of one , and when it came to ‘ caring ’ he 'd only touched the surface . |
| 2 | From a three-hour flight , at the outside , when he 'd only flown from London to Helsinki on the last lap ? |
| 3 | She 'd only intended to buy a small tin of paint and one brush . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'd only intended to fix myself a light snack and get an early night . |
| 5 | He 'd only made two twists when he stopped , listening . |
| 6 | She 'd only made 60p that day . |
| 7 | I 'd only gone part of the way when I collided with Dad . |
| 8 | I 'd only gone say two weeks without it , but it takes a lot longer than that to actually sort yourself out , anyway … . |
| 9 | We 'd only gone a short distance from the trees when suddenly we were hit by a blinding flash . |
| 10 | ‘ He was convinced you 'd only gone home to England to break the news to your family , then you were coming back to marry him . |
| 11 | But todsay Cranog Jones told the court he 'd only gone into the garage to de-tune her car after they 'd had an argument . |
| 12 | ‘ I 'd only gone to that debate because my wife was a steward . ’ |
| 13 | Yeah , that 's what Alan said they were away were n't they , she 'd only gone to walk the dog |
| 14 | Oh yeah I suppose it will be much too early Left home at er today come in , I thought I so I 'd only gone about half a mile down the road filled up my car , paid the money the car would n't start I kept turning nothing was happening and then all of a sudden after a couple of minutes it erm like the way I 've button up my coat ? |
| 15 | If only I was this , if I 'd only said that , done the other — why always ME ? |
| 16 | He 'd only said that to get him out of Mrs Wright 's house . |
| 17 | But none of it was true — she 'd only said it to cover her own growing confusion , a confusion she now realised had come out of what she 'd begun to feel for him . |
| 18 | H. P. If your face did n't fit , they could get rid of you within twelve months.There was this bobby , a big chap over six feet , very dour , from the Hebrides — he 'd only seen sheep . |
| 19 | We 'd only seen these in tanks before , and the initial reaction was that they were OK , but … |
| 20 | I replied cautiously , acutely aware that I had n't seen Spock and Kirk do their thing for years and that I 'd only seen one episode of the new series . |
| 21 | Since the war had begun , she 'd only seen the enemy on newsreels . |
| 22 | Hitherto we 'd only seen their faces and spoken with our hands . |
| 23 | It 's as if I 'd only seen him at twilight ; and now suddenly I see him at dawn . |
| 24 | You 'd only seen me a couple of times , and then you were n't exactly falling over yourself to speak to me ! ’ she spat back . |
| 25 | Disconcerted , she admitted that she 'd only done this once before , that , in all honesty , I could probably do it equally well on my own . |
| 26 | When we toured with the Inspiral Carpets — which was good for us to do at that point — we 'd only done 20 gigs as a band , and were n't experienced in the ‘ problems ’ of a support act like monitors being mysteriously unplugged during the performance , and an ever-shrinking stage , but we still did the business ! |
| 27 | Whatever it was I 'd taken from Sunil 's house — and I 'd only done it as a favour to him , after all — he could n't have said anything to Nassim about it . |
| 28 | And I 'd only done them ten minutes before |
| 29 | Well , he 'd only scored 2 goals in 2 years before the Ford fiesta at Cambridge last weekend . |
| 30 | The Thorns lived there , newcomers who 'd only moved in the year before . |